3 Keys: Lightning vs. Blue Jackets, Game 3 of Eastern First Round

No. 2 Lightning vs. No. 7 Blue Jackets

7:30 p.m. ET; NBCSN, SN360, TVAS, FS-O, SUN

Best-of-7 series is tied, 1-1

The Tampa Bay Lightning will look to break through against Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Joonas Korpisalo in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference First Round at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Saturday.

The Lightning have scored four goals through the first two games, but none over the final 54:36 of a 3-1 loss to the Blue Jackets in Toronto, the East hub city, on Thursday.

Tampa Bay had a 37-22 shots advantage in Game 2. It has outshot Columbus 129-90 in the series.

Teams that win Game 3 after a Stanley Cup Playoff series is tied 1-1 are 215-106 (67 percent) winning a best-of-7 series.

"We have to set the tone right away," Lightning defenseman Zach Bogosian said. "We know they're not going to go away if we have a two-goal lead or whatever it may be. They're a hard-working team so we just have to capitalize on our opportunities, you know, keep that pedal down and make sure we're continuing to move that play north and play good defensively.

"So, they've obviously capitalized on the opportunities that they've gotten, and we just have to do the same."

Here are 3 keys to Game 3:

1. Lightning need traffic in front of Korpisalo

Korpisalo set an NHL record with 85 saves in the series opener, a 3-2 loss by the Blue Jackets in five overtimes on Tuesday in the fourth-longest game in Stanley Cup Playoffs history and has saved 154 of 158 shots (a .975 save percentage) in three straight postseason starts.

He had two shutouts in four games against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the best-of-5 Stanley Cup Qualifiers and is 3-2 in six playoff games, including five starts, with a 1.30 goals-against-average and a .962 save percentage.

While the Lightning are getting plenty of shots, forward Yanni Gourde believes they must do a better job of getting in front of the net and getting to rebounds for second-chance scoring opportunities.

"He's seeing most of the pucks," Gourde said after the morning skate Saturday. "If he's seeing the pucks, he's going to make the save on them. And they're pretty good at protecting the house after when there's a rebound, so we've got to make sure we take his eyes away and those shots are going to be harder for him to save. And I think those are little things of our game that we need to get better at."

2. How much gas do the Blue Jackets have in the tank?

Stamina has been a huge factor in the playoffs for Columbus, which has played an additional 122:01, the equivalent of two regulation games, while going to overtime three times in their past five games, including 90:27 in Game 1 against the Lightning.

Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella emphasizes physical conditioning as an integral component of their preparation to compete. Rest and recovery are also keys for the Blue Jackets, who did not practice Friday and did not hold a morning skate.

"There's not many things that you can control in the game, conditioning is one," Tortorella said Friday. "I know a lot of times it's talked about, the amount of conditioning we do. I just think it's part of trying to be the best we can be, and it's certainly something athletes can control. That's why we go about it that way."

3. Power play boost

The Blue Jackets scored power-play goals in each of the first two games after failing to score with the man advantage (0-for-14) against Toronto. The Lightning are 0-for-6 on the power play so far against Columbus after going 2-for-5 in three round-robin games.

Power-play contributions could go a long way to determining the outcome of Game 3.

Lightning projected lineup

Ondrej Palat -- Brayden Point -- Nikita Kucherov

Alex Killorn -- Anthony Cirelli -- Tyler Johnson

Barclay Goodrow -- Yanni Gourde -- Blake Coleman

Pat Maroon -- Mitchell Stephens -- Cedric Paquette

Victor Hedman -- Zach Bogosian

Ryan McDonagh -- Erik Cernak

Mikhail Sergachev -- Kevin Shattenkirk

Andrei Vasilevskiy

Curtis McElhinney

Scratched: Mathieu Joseph, Carter Verhaeghe, Alexander Volkov, Braydon Coburn, Jan Rutta, Luke Schenn, Scott Wedgewood

Unfit to play: Steven Stamkos

Blue Jackets projected lineup

Alexandre Texier -- Pierre-Luc Dubois -- Oliver Bjorkstrand

Nick Foligno -- Boone Jenner -- Liam Foudy

Gustav Nyquist -- Alex Wennberg -- Riley Nash

Eric Robinson -- Devin Shore -- Emil Bemstrom

Zach Werenski -- Seth Jones

Vladislav Gavrikov -- David Savard

Ryan Murray -- Dean Kukan

Joonas Korpisalo

Matiss Kivlenieks

Scratched: Gabriel Carlsson, Adam Clendening, Scott Harrington, Stefan Matteau, Markus Nutivaara, Kevin Stenlund, Veini Vehvilainen

Unfit to play: Cam Atkinson, Nathan Gerbe, Elvis Merzlikins, Josh Anderson, Brandon Dubinsky

Status report: Tortorella did not speak with the media before the game and there haven't been any updates on Atkinson and Gerbe since both were ruled unfit to play Game 2.